A fast, concise, readable, pragmatic and open sourced programming language.

The Odin Programming Language

The Odin programming language is fast, concise, readable, pragmatic and open sourced. It is designed with the intent of replacing C with the following goals:

• simplicity
• high performance
• built for modern systems
• joy of programming

Website: https://odin.handmade.network/

Documentation

• Tutorial
• Frequently Asked Questions

package main

import "core:fmt"

main :: proc() {
	program := "+ + * 😃 - /";
	accumulator := 0;

	for token in program {
		switch token {
		case '+': accumulator += 1;
		case '-': accumulator -= 1;
		case '*': accumulator *= 2;
		case '/': accumulator /= 2;
		case '😃': accumulator *= accumulator;
		case: // Ignore everything else
		}
	}

	fmt.printf("The program \"%s\" calculates the value %d\n",
	           program, accumulator);
}

Setup

Odin only supports x86-64 at the moment (64-bit), relies on LLVM for code generation and an external linker.

In addition, the following platform-specific steps are necessary:

• Windows

  • Have Visual Studio installed (MSVC 2010 or later, for the linker)
  • Have a copy of opt.exe and llc.exe in Odin/bin. Pre-built Windows binaries can be found here and must be explicitly copied
  • Open a valid command prompt:
    • Basic: run the x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS2017 shortcut bundled with VS 2017, or
    • Advanced: run vcvarsall.bat x64 from a blank cmd session

• MacOS

  • Have LLVM explicitly installed (brew install llvm)
  • Have XCode installed (version X.X or later, for linking)
  • Make sure the LLVM binaries and the linker are added to your $PATH environmental variable

• GNU/Linux

  • Have LLVM installed (opt/llc)
  • Have Clang installed (version X.X or later, for linking)
  • Make sure the LLVM binaries and the linker are added to your $PATH environmental variable

Then build the compiler by calling build.bat (Windows) or make (Linux/MacOS). This will automatically run the demo program if successful.

Notes for Linux:: The compiler currently relies on the core and shared library collection being relative to the compiler executable. Installing the compiler in the usual sense (to /usr/local/bin or similar) is therefore not as straight forward as you need to make sure the mentioned libraries are available. As a result, it is recommended to simply explicitly invoke the compiler with /path/to/odin in your preferred build system, or add /path/to/odin to $PATH.

Please read the Getting Started Guide for more information.

Requirements to build and run

Please read the Getting Started Guide.

• Windows

  • x86-64
  • MSVC 2010 installed (C++11 support)
  • LLVM binaries for opt.exe, llc.exe, and lld-link.exe
  • Requires MSVC's link.exe as the linker
    • run vcvarsall.bat to setup the path

• MacOS

  • x86-64
  • LLVM explicitly installed (brew install llvm)
  • XCode installed (for the linker)

• GNU/Linux

  • x86-64
  • Build tools (ld)
  • LLVM installed
  • Clang installed (temporary - this is Calling the linker for now)

Warnings

• This is still highly in development and the language's design is quite volatile.
• Syntax is not fixed.

Demonstrations:

• First Talk & Demo
  • Talk
  • Demo
  • Q&A
• Composition & Refactorability
• Introspection, Modules, and Record Layout
• push_allocator & Minimal Dependency Building
• when, for & procedure overloading
• Context Types, Unexported Entities, Labelled Branches
• Bit Fields, i128 & u128, Syntax Changes
• Default and Named Arguments; Explicit Parametric Polymorphism
• Loadsachanges
• Packages, Bit Sets, cstring
  • Q&A